Letter Fragments

regard I have for Balbus, how entirely devoted I am to him,
he himself will tell you.6

3. M. Tullius in a letter to Caesar, Book I: You ought to
be disgusted at his effrontery in reassigning the debt7—most
impudent!

5. So I am afraid that your dazzling appreciations of him
may make him rather uppish.8

7. M. Tullius thought that the meaning of monumentum
is to be derived from monendo (‘reminding’); Letter to
Caesar, Book II: But what a monument is about, I am admonished
by the word itself. It should pay regard to the
memory of posterity rather than the approval of the present
day.9

8. M. Tullius in a letter to Caesar, Book II: The letting itself
is expensive.10

9. M. Tullius to Caesar, Book III: If you saw this, you
would protect yourself not by keeping your army but by
handing it over or letting it go.11